Lace with stellated meshes



E. BENTE ET AL LACE WITH STELLATED MESHES Filed Dec. 27,. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fi i 1221 81) furs Emil B82216) Gd. 28; 19,- 7 1,513,578 M E. BENTE ET AL.

LACE WITH STELLATED MBSHES Filed Dec. 27, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 .mys' m i In yen ions 2, .I

Emil B22116, Paulfil'uhlmann Allorney.=

Patented Get. 28, 1924i.

ETED j 1.51am PATENT FF1 EMJZL IBENTE AND PAUL STUHLMANN, or BARMEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO MAX.

HENKELS, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

LACE WITH STELLATEI) MESHES.

Appflication filed December 27, 1922. Serial No. 609,270.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMIL BENTE and PAUL STUHLMANN, citizens of the German Empire, residing at Barmen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laces with Stellated Meshes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the production of lace with rhombic ground work. The

object of the invention is to produce a lace of said character in a more simple, rapid and economical way, viz from a very small number of threads, and to obtain a pleasant looking and firmly braided lace which retains its design and will resist distortion.

With this and other objects in view our invention consists in a novel way of arranging, interbraiding and interconnecting the threads to form the lace as'is fully set forth in the following description with reference to the annexed drawing which shows, by way of example, three embodiments of our invention.

On the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a piece'of the new lace in natural size,

Fig. 2 is a part of thatlace drawn on an enlarged scale, 1

Fig. 3 is a piece of an alternative form of our lace in natural size, and

Fig. 4: is a piece of another alternative form of the new lace, also in natural size.

Referring now to Fig. 1, the ground-work of the lace shown seems to be composed of numerous six-jagged stars connected with each other at their contiguous points.

This peculiar lace-net is, according to our invention, produced by forming several spaced rows of rhomb-like meshes a, a arranged in staggered relation to each other, and by connecting each four adjacent meshes, at their corners facing one another, by means of transversally arranged staves or spokes C, D, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The edges of the rhomb-like meshes a, a consist of strips or pillars comprising each two entwisted threads, and what is more, the edges of those meshes a, a which belong to the same row are commonly formed by means of a pair of strips, 1 and 2, 3 and 4:, 5 and 6 etc. which extend over the entire length of the fabric. There is a great number of strips arranged in pairs side by side depending on the width of the lace to be produced, spaces of equal width being left between each adjacent pair of strips. At

certain intervals, for instance at the places A, A B, B B (see Fig. 2-) those strips 1 and 2, 3 and- 4, 5 and 6 etc., which belong to the same pair are connected with each other by braiding together all four threads of both strips, the connecting places of each pair of strips being thereby arranged in staggered relation to the connecting places of the adjoining pairs of strips.

At the connecting places A, A B, B and so on above explained two threads each of the four interbraided threads, for instance the threads a or, are in opposite directions, temporarily conducted out of the braids formed at said places, and subsequently led back into the braids so as to produce two transversal or weft-like staves or spokes C, D having each the shape of a loop. While forming said loop like spokes or bars the threads a a are, each at another side of the respective braid, for instance of the braid A, connected withthose strips of the two adjacent pairs of strips which immediately adjoin to that pair of strips from which the respective loops are taken, for example with the strips 2 and 5, the said connections being effected by interlacing or interbraiding the threads of, a with .the threads of the saidstrips 2 and 5. As the braided portions A, A and B, B in each adjacent pair of strips are arranged in staggered relation, the connec tions of the free ends of; the loops 0, D with adjacent strips lie exactly in the middle between each two braids, B, B for example.

In consequence of their being connected by means of the loops, C, D to the adjacent pairs of strips, the two strips belonging to the same pair of strips are between each two braided portions A and A B and B B. and B respectively, spread apart, and thereby drawn each into a zig-zag line. Thus the rows of rhomb-like meshes a, aare formed which latter, in consequence ,of

their being arranged in staggered relation,

means of the loop-like spokes C, D, divided I into meshes of a similar rhomb-like shape. Thus the latter form in combination with the n'ieshes (an the six-jagged stars which give the lace-net its peculiar character.

The threads a a which, during the terniation ot the loops C, D, remain in the braided portions A, A B, l3 and so on, are preferably conducted, without crossing one another, straight through in the longitudinal direction of the fabric, so that in the middle or each of said braids holesor eyes Z' formed.

" e edges of the lace, may, as'shown in l and 2;, he formed in known manner strips 0, 0 runnine' straight thrcugn uizi f, .11

xnnal direction cl the laoiic,

ips are alternately connectc ly directed corners ol the meshes {'inal rows of meshes and cxendint outwardly from i olaces ll, B oi" said marginal a, a by means otthe'loops described, these of Fl 's.

connections nray, if desired, also be effected by interchanging one thread-each between the immediately adjoining strips of two adjacent pairs oi? strips so as to form also transverse or wett-like stares or spoken.

in the alternative form of lace shown in Fig. anet with stellated nieshes is formed substantially in the same manner as above explained with reference'to Figs, 1 and 2. The difference consists only in that the lateralcorners of the meshes a, a belonging to adjacent rows are connected with each other by means of intermediate strips 0, 0 running straight through in the longitudinal direction of the fabric and extending over the entire length of the latter. By these means a distortion of the lacc net in its longitudinal direction is entirely avoided. in tllel'iOl'lll of lace, shown in Fig. 3, or course, the adjacent rows of 'nicshes a, a are to be spaced in'such a manner that the lateral corners of the meshes belonging to the adf, of the type usu lly produced on single-thread lz'tc"--hiaiding *niaclii' e.

W e wis to state "ha our invent 1.?

eted to the eiict "torinso'f l cc r i and described for many alterations and variations may sngg st themselves to tn skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or our invention as pointed out in disclaims.

Claims: 1. The method rhonihic ground of producing lace'with work which consists in forming pairs of warp-pillars, each pillar consisting of but two threads, twisted together to form the pillar, and in interconnecting said pairs of-pillars'with each other and withthe adjacent pillars so as to term spaced'rows of rhoinhic shapedfigures, and the latter in adjacent rows'heing'in stag;- grcred relation to each other said interconnecti on being accomplished by inter-braiding at intervals the tour threads of each pair of pillars and simultaneously "forming trans Versely extending loop bars at the point of interhraiding.

2. A lace'with rhonihic ground work, having pairsot warp-pillars, each pillar con-- sisting of two threads twisted together to form the pillar and each pair of pillars being connected with each other and with the adjacent pillars so as to form spaced rows of rhoinhic figures, the latter in adjacent rows being in staggered relation to each other, said interconnection seine accornplished by interbraiding'at lDtGTYiUS the four threads of each pair of pillars and simultaneously forming transversely extending loop bars at the point of interbraidingn In testimony whereof we afiix our tures in presence of two witnesses.

Evllll BENTE, PAUL STUl-HJMA NW.

lVitnesses:

FRITZ Knunncnn,

KARL LoNNnr. 

